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Saudi Arabia Has a Plan B to Try to Stop Iran’s Economic Rise
May 26th, 2016
The kingdom is mobilizing its Gulf allies to make sure that Iran’s opening-up to the global economy doesn’t go smoothly. Saudi Arabia couldn’t stop the Iran nuclear deal from being signed. Plan B is to limit Iran’s ability to ...
$175 Million Penalty for Citibank
May 26th, 2016
CFTC Orders Citibank, N.A. and Japanese Affiliates to Pay $175 Million Penalty for Attempted Manipulation of Yen LIBOR and Euroyen TIBOR, and False Reporting of Euroyen TIBOR and U.S. Dollar LIBOR Citibank, N.A. Has Been Subject to Three CFTC ...
FCA Research into the issue of de-risking
May 25th, 2016
The Financial Conduct Authority has issued a press release to make publish a research regarding the issue of de-risking. Below is the announcement as published from FCA: The FCA, along with fellow agencies and authorities, has a long-standing programme ...
Marks & Spencer is going downmarket to try and rescue its clothing business
May 25th, 2016
Marks & Spencer put out another bad set of results on Wednesday— something that has become a tradition for the struggling retailer. Annual sales at M&S were up 2.4% to £10.4 billion ($15.2 billion) but pre-tax profit collapsed by 19.5% ...
Deloitte trashed the hype around the $US180 billion fintech industry
May 24th, 2016
Deloitte just trashed the hype around the online lending industry. The accountancy and consultancy practice has done a deep dive on the online lending industry and its conclusions should make for devastating reading for anyone connected to the sector. ...
The Eurozone is the greatest danger
May 23rd, 2016
World-wide, markets are horribly distorted, which spells danger not only to investors, but to businesses and their employees as well, because it is impossible to allocate capital efficiently in this financial environment. With markets everywhere disrupted by interventions from ...
Deutsche Bank May Punish Employees for Personal Trade With Firm
May 20th, 2016
Bank: ‘transaction may have involved unacceptable conflicts’ Auditors estimate employees gained about $37 million, WSJ says Deutsche Bank AG halted bonus payments to a group of employees while examining whether they improperly traded with the firm. “We are reviewing ...
Oil prices reach six-month high on latest surge
May 18th, 2016
Oil prices continued to surge on Tuesday, reaching a six-month high. The price of a barrel of Brent Crude reached just short of $49.50 on Tuesday morning. Meanwhile, US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is also approaching the $50 mark. ...
Facebook, YouTube and Twitter face legal action over hate speech
May 17th, 2016
Three French anti-racism groups on Sunday declared that they’ll be filing legal complaints against Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for failing to remove “hateful” posts aimed at the black, Jewish and homosexual communities. The groups – SOS Racisme, SOS Homophobia ...
ASIC accepts enforceable undertaking from HSBC Bank Australia
May 17th, 2016
ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking (EU) from HSBC Bank Australia Ltd (HSBC) that requires HSBC to review and remediate clients who received potentially deficient advice on retail structured products between January 2009 and March 2013. The EU follows ...
